Muduga (IPA: [muɖuɡɐ]), also called Mudugar, is a Southern Dravidian language of India influenced by Kannada and Tulu. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the Attappady valley south of the Nilgiris in Palakkad district, Kerala.[2] It is mutually intelligible with Attapady Kurumba.
References
- ^ Muduga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Rajendran, Nanu (1986). Muduga Language. Ennes Publications.
Relevant literature
- Rajendran, N. (1978). Description of the language of mudugas (PhD). University of Kerala. hdl:10603/101622.
- Shyam, S. K.; Ravindran, P.N.; Syama, C.G. (2017). Descriptive Grammar of Muduga and Kurumba. Calicut: KIRTADS (Kerala Institute for Research Training & Development studies). pp. 25–106 (Muduga language).
- Kapp, Dieter B. (2019). Muḍuga: Grammatik, Textproben und Wörterbuch. Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen. Vol. 32. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447113182. ISSN 0948-2806.
- Arsenault, Paul; Abraham, Binny (2022). “Centralized vowels in Muduga”. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 9 (1–2): 97–129. doi:10.1515/jsall-2022-2045. S2CID 257233842.